AMD announced to acquire DPU chip maker Pensando for $1.9 billion
AMD announced that it will acquire DPU chip maker Pensando for $1.9 billion. Pensando’s distributed services platform includes a high-performance, fully programmable packet processor and comprehensive software stack to accelerate networking, security, storage and other services for cloud, enterprise and edge applications.
“To build a leading-edge data center with the best performance, security, flexibility and lowest total cost of ownership requires a wide range of compute engines,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO. “All major cloud and OEM customers have adopted EPYC processors to power their data center offerings. Today, with our acquisition of Pensando, we add a leading distributed services platform to our high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA and adaptive SoC portfolio. The Pensando team brings world-class expertise and a proven track record of innovation at the chip, software and platform level which expands our ability to offer leadership solutions for our cloud, enterprise and edge customers.”
Pensando CEO Prem Jain and his team will join AMD as part of the Data Center Solutions Group, led by AMD senior vice president and general manager Forrest Norrod, Pensando will continue to focus on executing on the original product and technology roadmap.
Previously, Mr. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, said that the three-chip strategy of CPU, GPU, and DPU will continue to be promoted in the future. The introduction of Grace CPU enables it to re-architect the data center to promote AI. This time AMD has further expanded its product portfolio through the acquisition and also has the same three different types of chips as Nvidia.
